From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#62892: proposal to extend mark-sexp to go forward and backward on command Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2023 10:11:35 +0300 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <86y1mrq8yg.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="578"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/30.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: 62892@debbugs.gnu.org To: Zachary Kanfer Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 17 09:14:26 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1poJ4D-000Aac-DL for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 17 Apr 2023 09:14:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1poJ3x-0004rf-W6; Mon, 17 Apr 2023 03:14:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1poJ3q-0004rB-HF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Apr 2023 03:14:04 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1poJ3q-0004ge-9R for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Apr 2023 03:14:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1poJ3p-0004bj-MH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Apr 2023 03:14:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Juri Linkov Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2023 07:14:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 62892 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 62892-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B62892.168171559317637 (code B ref 62892); Mon, 17 Apr 2023 07:14:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 62892) by debbugs.gnu.org; 17 Apr 2023 07:13:13 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52992 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1poJ32-0004aP-Qy for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 17 Apr 2023 03:13:12 -0400 Original-Received: from relay2-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.194]:44711) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1poJ30-0004a9-D6 for 62892@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 17 Apr 2023 03:13:11 -0400 Original-Received: (Authenticated sender: juri@linkov.net) by mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 15A5F40009; Mon, 17 Apr 2023 07:13:02 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: (Zachary Kanfer's message of "Sun, 16 Apr 2023 22:25:28 -0400") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:260174 Archived-At: > C-M-@ is bound to `#'mark-sexp`. This command works incrementally -- that > is, calling this once marks the sexp after point; calling it again marks > one more sexp (in total, the two sexps after point). > > It would be convenient to easily be able to mark sexps backwards as well. Did you know that it's possible to switch directions by typing 'C-x C-x'. After that 'C-M-@' extends the region backwards.